Hi Michael; --- On Fri, 10/7/11, Michael Meeks <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Pedro, > > On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 07:56 -0700, Pedro Giffuni wrote: > > My guess is that mmeeks signed a JCA for his code and > > was even willing to get a JCA for libegg too. > > libegg is not my code, and is not covered by any (C) > assignment I've ever signed, it was built as an external > library we bundled deliberately as a separate shared > library to avoid problems, before this functionality was > included into gtk+. > This was also my understanding, sorry if I got anyone confused. I would think that using directly the GTK+ functionality is something that LibreOffice will want to do too (if it's not done already). > The shutdownicon-unx.cxx code is in all probability owned by > Sun/Oracle, but it was indeed my work: though no credits > appear anywhere sadly. That it does not (yet) contain a > shouting header saying: > > * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE > HEADER. > * > * Copyright 2000, 2010 Oracle and/or its affiliates. > > is just an omission. > Thanks for clarifying this. > > His code should be covered by the grant but I > have no idea what > > the lawyers will do since there is no copyright header > (probably > > just be conservative and say no). There is an initial > grant already > > but I forgot where it is. > > Hopefully they'll read the list of committers, and JCA > signatories before rejecting things without explicit headers: > there are plenty of files in that situation, and no doubt > other people forgot to add them around the place. > I hope they do look carefully, but lawyers .. well let's not talk about them until they give us reasons to do so ;-). I am afraid we will have to ask later on some developers to confirm if we can take their code and relicense it under AL2, but for now I don't think we should (or can, in any case) start a license witch hunt. best regards, Pedro.
